| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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| rigyoseki 鯉魚石 | ✓ | Lit. "carp stone." A stone placed at the base of a waterfall to symbolize a carp swimming up the waterfall. Good examples… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| Rikyūgaki 利休垣 | A fence made of bamboo stakes that alternate with unpeeled wooden stakes. The bamboo and unpeeled stakes have the same… |
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| rinsen 林泉 | Lit. "forest and stream." |
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| ryōanjigaki 龍安寺垣 | ✓ | A type of bamboo fence used at Ryōanji 龍安寺, a Zen temple in Kyoto. It is characterized by thick split bamboo that cross… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| ryōmengaki 両面垣 | Also ryōmegaki 両目垣. An interlocking bamboo fence. Bamboo, about 3 cm in diameter, are cut in half vertically and… |
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| ryōtei 涼亭 | A summer house, arbor or pavilion that provided a cool resting place in a garden. |
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| ryūchishiki teien 竜池式庭園 | Lit. "dragon pond style." A type of garden featuring a sharply curving pond reminiscent of a dragon's serpentine body. Good… |
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| ryūmonbaku 竜門瀑 | Lit. "dragon's gate cascade." One type of cascade *baku 瀑 found in Japanese… |
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| ryūsui kanshōshiki teien 流水観賞式庭園 | Lit. "flowing water appreciation style garden." |
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| ryūsuishiki chisen 流水式池泉 | Lit. "flowing water style of pond and stream." |
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| yaegaki 八重垣 | Lit. "eightfold fence." A type of double-screen sleeve fence *sodegaki 袖垣 in… |
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| yakuboku 役木 | Also read yakugi. The allocation of shrubbery in a garden, particularly applied to trees which set the mood of a… |
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| yakueda 役枝 | Lit. "roles of branches." The branches of a flower or tree that are given a name based on their "role" in the structure of… |
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| yama-ishi 山石 | Lit. "mountain stone." A generic name for stones found or quarried in the mountains. Unlike sea stones *… |
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| yamato-e shiki teien 大和絵式庭園 | Lit. "gardens in the style of Japanese painting." Also called sakuteikiryū 作庭記流 (gardens in the lineage of the… |
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| yamatobei 大和塀 | ✓ | A fence made of widths of bleached bamboo spaced about 45 cm apart and held in place by bark. This type of fence is used in… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| yarimizu 遣水 | ✓ | Lit. "water course." An archaic term for a shallow, curving garden stream. The term, found in the 11th-century garden manual… |
Architecture, Gardens |
| yatsu 八つ | Lit. "the character eight 八 yatsu." The practice of propping three or four posts around a newly replanted tree. The… |
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| yobikogata chōzubachi 呼子形手水鉢 | Lit. "whistle shape." A type of water basin *chōzubachi 手水鉢 which resembles… |
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| yotsumegaki 四目垣 | ✓ | Lit. "four-eyed fence." A generic name for a bamboo lattice fence. The poetic name derives from the quadrant of lozenge… |
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| yumiyaeda 弓矢枝 | Lit. "bow and arrow branches." The arrangement of a tree trunk and branches in which one branch grows up from the trunk then… |
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